"In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep."
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"Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first."
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"That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell."
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"The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color, is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most."
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"Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity. The protracted consideration of Keystone supposedly displayed these virtues. Now, however, it is clear that his mind has always been as closed as an unshucked oyster."
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"Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free."
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"The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought."
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"And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you."
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"All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened."
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"The simplest way of becoming his light is by being kind and loving, thoughtful, and sincere with others: 'By this they will know that you are his disciples.'"
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"Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something."
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"Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement."
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"Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man."
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"Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness."
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"By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition."
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"Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species."
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"Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see."
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"As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins."
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"If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible."
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"I think people are attracted to The Huffington Post's blend of up-to-the-second news and thoughtful opinion, delivered with an attitude. Plus, I think they enjoy that we cover so many different things - from politics and entertainment to style and satire. There is always something interesting to read and think about - and even to laugh at."
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